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Zebra before 6.4.0 Gossiped Block Drop via Forged Coinbase scriptSig Height

Type: advisorySources: Official CVE List

Zebra before 6.4.0 contains an improper integrity validation vulnerability in the inbound gossip download path that allows unauthenticated peers to force dropping of new blocks without penalty. Attackers can serve a real block with a coinbase scriptSig rewritten to height 1, which keeps the ZIP-244 block hash, triggering a behind-tip drop before consensus validation and delaying tip discovery for mining backends.

Products
zebra
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2026-109366
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 21:34 UTC · Revision 2

Source evidence

Zebra before 6.4.0 Gossiped Block Drop via Forged Coinbase scriptSig Height

core-cve · Original source

Published 12 Oct 2026, 16:05 UTC

Zebra before 6.4.0 contains an improper integrity validation vulnerability in the inbound gossip download path that allows unauthenticated peers to force dropping of new blocks without penalty. Attackers can serve a real block with a coinbase scriptSig rewritten to height 1, which keeps the ZIP-244 block hash, triggering a behind-tip drop before consensus validation and delaying tip discovery for mining backends.

cve:CVE-2026-109366

zebra

Fixed versions: Not specified

Complete source record
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